My old StumbleUpon bookmarks from 2009 still beat my current saved list

Back in 2009 I had a folder of about 400 StumbleUpon links I'd saved for reference, mostly obscure tutorials and old forum threads. I lost them when my hard drive died in 2013, but I found a cached copy on the Wayback Machine last month. The weird thing is, those links are more useful now than most of the stuff I save with modern bookmark managers. I used to tag everything manually with keywords like 'css' or 'fix' and it actually worked. Now I just dump links into a pile and never sort them out. Anyone else dig up old bookmarks and feel like the internet was easier to navigate back then? How do you organize your saved links now?

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brooke5339d ago

Wait, are you telling me old bookmarks still actually work? (I swear half my saved links from back then are dead by now.) The tagging thing is the real loss though. I had folders like 'php-oh-god' and 'how-to-fix-my-printer' and it was ugly but functional. Now I just hit save and pray Chrome's search finds it later, which it never does. Honestly, your post makes me want to go dig through my old Delicious exports just to relive the chaos.